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Lingones (Celtic tribe)

Nation Defunct 500 BCE – 100 CE

Lingones are a Celtic tribe that originally live in Gaul in the area of the headwaters of the Seine and Marne rivers.

Some of the Lingones migrate across the Alps and settle near the mouth of the Po River in Cisalpine Gaul of northern Italy around 400 BCE.

These Lingones are part of a wave of Celtic tribes that include the Boii and Senones (Polybius, Histories ii.17).

The Lingones may have helped sack Rome in 390 BCE.

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